List of Famous people born in United States of America
Richard Meier
Richard Meier is an American abstract artist and architect, whose geometric designs make prominent use of the color white. A winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1984, Meier has designed several iconic buildings including the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, and San Jose City Hall.
Albert Pyun
Albert Pyun is an American film director who made low-budget B-movies and direct-to-video action films. The Independent Film Channel said that Pyun "has carved out a unique niche as a director of low-budget, high-concept genre films starring actors past their prime", adding that "others believe this a charitable description for Pyun, who has also been derided as the new Ed Wood."
Joe Guy
Joseph Luke Guy was an American jazz trumpeter. Guy had a promising career as a young progressive bop musician as he worked alongside more prominent musical acts until a drug addiction sidelined him from further success.
Jerry Levine
Jerry Levine is an American actor and director of television and theatre. As an actor, he is best known for his role as Stiles in the 1985 feature film Teen Wolf and Jamie in the 1988 movie Casual Sex?.
Jonathan Levin
Jonathan Levin is an American economist at Stanford University who succeeded Garth Saloner as the dean at Stanford Graduate School of Business on September 1, 2016. He also has an appointment as the Holbrook Working Professor of Price Theory in the Department of Economics at Stanford. He had been Chair of the Economics Department. He was awarded the 2011 John Bates Clark Medal.
Joe Eldridge
Joseph Eldridge was an American jazz saxophonist. He was the brother of Roy Eldridge.
George Duning
George Duning was an American musician, and film composer. He was born in Richmond, Indiana, United States, and educated in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where his mentor was Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
Fat Mike
Michael John Burkett, known professionally as Fat Mike, is an American musician and producer. He is the bassist and lead vocalist for the punk rock band NOFX and the bassist for the punk rock supergroup cover band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. Fat Mike started out with his first band False Alarm in 1982. He credits Joe Escalante of the Vandals for introducing him to punk rock when he was 13 at a summer camp.
Jerry Mitchell
Jerry Mitchell is an American theatre director and choreographer.
Billy Gray
William Thomas Gray is an American actor, who is best known for playing James "Bud" Anderson, Jr. in Father Knows Best from 1954-1960. Gray was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 1959.